Amid mounting U.S.-China tensions and spikes in anti-Asian hate, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says she's aware of the heightened scrutiny she faces as a Chinese American leading the U.S.'s trade policy.
Tai, who co-chairs the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, said she is used to the extra attention on her work.
"It's something that I have to navigate that maybe previous USTRs, all of whom have had China as a very big part of the portfolio, have not had to navigate," she said. But having worked in trade policy for 15 to 20 years, "it's not anything that is new to me." "So in some ways, as hard as these issues are for anyone and as hard as they are for someone like me with my background, it is in many ways the culmination of everything that I have studied and all the work that I have done.""When you're steeped in the policy and the substance, that gives you the ability to focus on and define what the problem is. The problem is not Chineseness. It is not Asianness."Asian Americans are feeling the consequences, Tai added.
But they are also "some of the most important connectors that we have," she noted. "They get the challenge that we have, and they get the need for a rebalancing in this relationship that puts this relationship on more solid footing."Tai's role in the Biden administration hasn't been without controversy.
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